The Key War on Terror Propaganda Tool: Only Western Victims Are Acknowledged [1]

In all the years I’ve been writing about Obama’s drone killings, yesterday featured by far the most widespread critical discussion in U.S. establishment journalism circles. This long-suppressed but crucial fact about drones was actually trumpeted as the lead headline on the front page of The New York Times yesterday:

The reason for the unusually intense, largely critical coverage of drone killings yesterday is obvious: the victims of this strike were Western and non-Muslim, and therefore were seen as actually human.

Pakistani lawyer Shahzad Akbar, who represents 150 victims of American drones and was twice denied entry to the U.S. [2] to speak about them, told my Intercept colleague Ryan Devereaux [3] how two of his child clients would likely react to Obama’s “apology” yesterday: